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Message from the Dean: Beyond the Campaign
The five-year capital campaign for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health proved a stunning success: $933 million raised, more than double our initial goal of $450 million. What's next?
Alumni Award Recipients 2018
Three outstanding individuals nominated by their peers received the School’s highest alumni honor at this year’s Alumni Award of Merit celebration, held on September 20 at the School.
Overcoming the financial obstacles of vaccine development
The pipeline for potential vaccines against diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and pneumonia—diseases that primarily afflict people living in low- and middle-income countries—is promising, but substantial funding challenges could hamper efforts to advance these vaccine candidates to later…
A simple solution
Oral rehydration solution (ORS)—a mixture of water, sugar, and salt that is administered as part of oral rehydration therapy (ORT)—is credited with preventing tens of millions of deaths from cholera and other diarrheal diseases.
Widespread, occasional use of antibiotics in U.S. linked with resistance
The increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance in the U.S. appears more closely linked with their occasional use by many people than by their repeated use among smaller numbers of people, according to a large new study from Harvard…
Harvard Chan student and alum help develop global vaccine access strategy
A DrPH student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a recent graduate of the program are helping pharmaceutical company Takeda develop strategies for bringing vaccines for infectious diseases like dengue, polio, and Zika to the…
How climate change is already harming health
The health effects of climate change are already here, say experts. Hotter temperatures are causing problems ranging from respiratory diseases to heat exhaustion to cognitive issues; extreme weather events are causing direct risks to human lives, the collapse…
A look back at Nigeria’s success in battling AIDS
December 7, 2018 – Nigeria is home to one of the world’s largest populations of people living with HIV. And while health care workers in the country are often strapped for resources and don’t have access to the…
Report: Climate change is biggest global health threat
A new report says that climate change represents the biggest global health threat of the 21st century. Published in The Lancet, the report said that climate change is already responsible for more heat waves, extreme weather, the spread…
A lifesaving therapy—and the researcher who helped launch it
November 26, 2018 – Oral rehydration therapy (ORT)—a mixture of water, sugar, and salt that is remarkably effective at rehydrating people with cholera or other diarrheal diseases—is credited with saving tens of millions of lives worldwide. On November…